Leathered let-out fur fox tail



Patented Apr. 9, 1940 x l i UNIT-ED} PATENT OFFICE I 2,196,273 v i I LEATHERED LET-OUT FOX L j sh'atjz; Brooklyn, N. Y. Y ApplicationNovember 14. 1939, Serial No: 304,385 2 Claims. terns-28) This invention relates to leathere'd let-out fur fox tail and methods of producing the same.

An object of this invention is to provide a furpiece made from a fur tail Qrother piece of fur, and having a length greater than the normal length of the piece of fur from which it is made.

It iswell known that fur tails do nothavevery much value. With the present invention the fur tail can be converted to a length approximately twice its original length, so that it may be used for making fur jackets known as chubbies.

In carrying out the invention, the animal skin bearing the fur is cut at spaced points, and pieces of-leather, or other suitable material, are

stitched .to or between the, cut portions," to lengthen'the piece of fur. The interposed pieces of leather, or other suitable material, are preferably sufliciently narrowso that the fur hairs of adjacent pieces of fur will contact, so that there are no breaks visible in the fur.

Still another object of this invention is to provide a strong and durable fur piece, and a highly economical, practical and efficient method of producing the same.

Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in the com binationoi steps, features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the -method and construction hereinafter described, and of which the scope of application will be indicated in the following claims. y

In the accompanying drawing, in which is shown one of the various possible illustrative embodiments of this invention,

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the leather side of a piece of fur made from a tail, and showing the lines along which the piece of'fur is cut, in dot, dash lines;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of one of the pieces cut from the fur tail, shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of one of the leather inserts;

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the leathered letout fur tail, made in accordance with the invention; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged, cross-sectional view taken.

on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

It is well known that the tail of a fur bearing animal haslimited uses in making fur garments and its value therefore is small. Such fur tails cannot be used in making fur jackets known as chubbies, and made of pieces of fur running up and down. Such jackets are usually made from pieces of fur from the bodies of animal skins. -It is therefore-an object of the present invention to provide a method for converting a tail into a piece of fur which may be used in making a fur garment.

In accordance with the invention, a tail of a fur bearing animal, such as a fox, is slit longitudinally and then flattened out and trimmed so that it has the shape of a piece of fur l0, shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. This piece of fur has inclined longitudinal edges I,'increasing in width from one end to the other, and substantially V-shaped end portions l2 and I3.

The leather portion of the piece of fur ID is then out along parallel lines I5, inclined to the edges ll, to form substantially parallelogram shaped pieces 20. There is then stitched between the pieces 20, substantially parallelogram shaped pieces 2| of artificial leather, or any other suitable material. I

The shape and dimensions of each piece 2| is preferably substantially the mean between the dimensions of the pieces on'o'ppos'ite sides thereof. The pieces 2| are stitched to the pieces 20, along lines of stitching 22. The width of the pieces 2| are preferably substantially similar to the width of the pieces 20. The width Of each piece 2| is preferably less than one-half inch. Said pieces may be between one-quarter and three-eights of an inch to give good results. The pieces 2| must be sufficiently narrow, sothat the fur on the pieces 20 on opposite sides thereof, are in contact, so as to hide any break in the fur.

The composite member 30, shown in Fig. 4, after the pieces 20 and 2| are stitched together, may be used in making waist length jackets known as chubbies, or other garments. When the pieces 2|iand "2| are of equal width, the length of member is substantially twice the length of the original furpiece I0. The value of the fur tail is greatly enhancedby making it longer, so as to increase the use thereof.

With the improved method of making the leatheredlet-out furpiece 30, the coloring of the fur is not materially altered because the pieces 20 cut from the tail |0 have the same relation to one another in the piece 30,as they had in the tail [0.

It will thus be seen that there is provided an article and method in which the several objects of this invention are achieved, and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might bemade of the above invention, and as various longitudinal axis of the tailto form narrow pieces of slit fur, then stitching narrow pieces of flexible sheet material between the narrow pieces of fur while maintaining said pieces in their original sequence in the tail, thereby materially increasing the length of the tail without materially altering the natural colored pattern of the fur of the tail.

2. A fur piece comprising narrow pieces of fur from the tail of a fur-bearing animal, the skin of said pieces of fur each being in the shape of a parallelogram of progressively increasing length but of substantially the same width, pieces of flexible sheet material, of the same width as said skins of the fur'pieces, between adjacent fur pieces and stitched thereto, said pieces of fur being in their natural sequence, said pieces of flexible material being of a shape complementary with the skins of said pieces of fur and alternately arranged therebetween, whereby the original lengthof the tail is approximately doubled and the natural colored pattern of the fur of the tail is not materially altered.

. MORRIS SCI-IATZ. 

